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Gabriel Bortoleto made it to Formula 1! He's welcomed at the Sauber garage with awkward clapping and almost warm embraces. He gets it, really. He figures it isn't easy or comfortable to welcome a rookie again. He has to earn their trust first, show that he's deserving of that seat beside such an experienced driver as Nico Hülkenberg.
Speaking of him, Nico is probably the most closed off person Gabriel has ever met — guarded behind perfectly PR-trained smiles and carefully polished courtesy. Too distant. Gabriel knows he shouldn't, but he wants to shorten that distance.OR
Gabriel Bortoleto tries to tear down Nico Hülkenberg's walls one post-race dinner at a time.
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15 Mar 2026
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Nico built his life on control.
Order. Precision. Distance.
As the CEO of the powerful Sauber Group, emotions are distractions he cannot afford — and people are even worse.
Gabi has always been the opposite.
Raised in a small apartment by a father who worked himself to the bone, Gabi grew up learning to find light in the smallest moments. Bright, daring, and full of restless energy, he carries sunshine with him everywhere he goes.
Their worlds were never meant to collide.
But when a scholarship brings Gabi into the towering halls of the Sauber Group, one unexpected meeting begins to unravel everything Nico thought he knew about his carefully built life.
Because sometimes the people who shine the brightest…
are the ones who can reach even the darkest corners.
And sometimes—
midnight rain learns what it feels like to stand in the sun.
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07 Mar 2026